An end-system architecture for unified congestion management

Author

Rahul, Hariharan S. ; Balakrishnan, Hari ; Seshan, Srinivasan

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

57

Abstract

In this position paper we motivate and describe the Congestion Manager (CM), a novel end-system architecture, which enables application adaptation to network congestion. The CM maintains congestion and path related information and allows flows to learn from each other and share information. It also exports an API to enable applications to learn about network status and regulate data transmission. As a result, applications are freed from having to detect network congestion and probe for spare bandwidth. We describe how TCP can be implemented using the CM and conclude that the CM provides an excellent framework for building adaptive Internet applications

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; API; Congestion Manager; TCP; adaptive Internet applications; application adaptation; data transmission regulation; end-system architecture; information sharing; network congestion; network status learning; path related information; unified congestion management; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Computer science; Identity-based encryption; Internet; Laboratories; Probes; Read only memory; Transport protocols; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 1999. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rio Rico, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0237-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HOTOS.1999.798377

Filename

798377